Ricky Gervais Will Live-Blog The Golden Globes, Make A Fun Idea Sound Unbearable

I feel like there was a time, not too long ago, when Ricky Gervais was generally regarded as a great comedic talent who helped to usher in a New Era of better and smarter and more uncomfortable comedy, and everybody liked him and he was very good and nobody really questioned it that much. But then I guess he read God Is Not Great, and now everything he says is unbearable? What happened? Give me back my Ricky Gervais! “And give me back my Atheist Comedian title!” – David Cross. What’s even more unfortunate is that it looks like his new unbearable persona has leaked, from things that would be unbearable by themselves into things that would otherwise be fun and exciting. From Ricky Gervais’ blog:

I’ve had one of my big ideas. A live 3 hour podcast during The Golden Globes. Me and a few chums (like Louis CK, Chris Rock, Karl Pilkington, John Stewart, Larry David popping in and out) doing our own alternative commentary.

People at home can have the telly on with the sound down listening to us online say things that no broadcaster could get away with.

No one could do a fucking thing.

The biggest live webcast ever? Who knows? Who cares? What’s fun is the shit we might come out with. No money. No sponsor. No guide lines. Fuck me I can’t wait.

OH MY GOODNESS. First of all, does Ricky Gervais believe he’s the first comedian to have ever decided to do a “tell it like it is” Golden Globes live-blog? Every single person, let alone COMEDIAN, all over the world live-blogs basically every single TV “event,” and it’s never for money and it’s never censored and there are never any guide lines and no one ever can do a fucking thing about it, unfortunately.

Second, THE BIGGEST LIVE WEBCAST EVER? Followed by, “Who knows? Who cares?” As if the fact that he isn’t really thinking about whether or not it will be THE BIGGEST LIVE WEBCAST EVER is something to be regarded as passionate and rebellious or, I don’t know, a rejection of some sort of “mainstream media” way of perceiving how well your live-blog PODCAST does? While still suggesting that it COULD PERHAPS BE the biggest live webcast ever? And then saying that what’s fun is “the shit we might come out with,” like it says in all mass Facebook invites to college improv troupe performances? RICKY. GET IT TOGETHER. Of course that’s what the fun of it is! This is not a new idea! This is a very well-worn idea, as a matter of fact! And no one is going to be mad at you after it is finished, I’m sorry to say! “We get it.”

He’s talking about doing a live podcast wherein Louis CK, Chris Rock, Karl Pilkington, John Stewart, and Larry David make fun of the most insufferable group of shits on Earth on their most insufferable night. I am so on board with this.

I like Ricky Gervais, I really do. My problem with him, however, is the way he insists on being “in your face” all the damn time. It’s annoying. “ATHEIST! COMEDIAN! I’M OFFENSIVE! CELEBRITIES ARE DUMB! BOLLOCKS LORRY ETC.!” I think if he were to just to his comedy shows and his podcasts and all that stuff, it’d be fine, but his insistance on furthering some social agenda just comes off as annoying. Yeah, get all your friends together, but do you have to make a huge deal of it?

I’ll be listening to the Oscars with the sound off anyway if Eddie Murphy is hosting. Or get out of the house and go bowling. Oh, this is the Golden Globes? Well, maybe I’ll do some Wii bowling that night. I’m getting really good.

I mean, yeah, he’s behaving like the living worst lately, but he’s the person who came up with The Office and Extras, so maybe he can get a pass for like, a year?

Also, I’m kinda getting the vibe that he’s not even an actual atheist, he’s just looking for creative ways to pose shirtless in photoshoots and them not having to be for US Weekly? (Ricky Gervais New Bikini Body!). So this is basically a really elaborate and silly mid life crisis, OR SOMETHING.

BUT! The photos are kinda hot (sorry!) and he’s becoming the biggest AILF* in my list.

This is weird, my braing goes somewhere, and my no-no places take another direction!

I like you videogum, really i do, but if in real life, every single word you say would be over analyzed that way, it would be hell.
In gervais’s post where some might see pretention or i don’t know what, i just see enthusiasm.
(Sorry for my english, i’m just trying)

Ricky does sound like a giddy child here but he’s a comedian, most people who give their own ‘comic’ opinions during an event like this aren’t exactly worth listening to. Sounds like you just don’t like the guy.

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